In April 2010, Sean tested positive for the hepatitis C virus (HCV) in Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center. Aged 37, he…
On April 16, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) launched its latest punishment-driven, treatment-inflected response to the opioid-involved overdose crisis in…
I grew up from the late ‘90s until the end of 2016 in a tiny town called Mission, Texas (above),…
Surprising as it may sound, within the federal criminal justice system, judges tend to be the good guys—at least compared…
In the lucrative but hit-and-miss opioid use disorder treatment field, buprenorphine is one medication that has demonstrated outstanding efficacy. It’s…
Many of the policies peddled by the Trump administration sound like a broken record. A case in point is its…
To accompany Alison Knopf's April 16 article about buprenorphine in light of federal charges against Suboxone manufacturer Indivior, Filter obtained…
Coachella, the giant annual music and arts festival in California’s Colorado Desert, began April 12 and ends nine days later.…
Alternative nicotine products—including e-cigarettes, lower-risk tobacco alternatives like snus, and heat-not-burn devices—have fallen under disproportionate levels of scrutiny all over…
Keri, now 35 and studying to become an addiction treatment counselor in Illinois, learned she was pregnant in 2016. In…